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Tag: Selected Quotes

All Reformers Are In Over Their Heads

Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We are trying to rebuild the ruins of Jerusalem with opponents taunting us about our (admitted!) inabilities in wall-building. They say that if a fox jumps on our wall, that wall will collapse; we wonder sometimes if it wouild take an animal that big” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 235).

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Which Should Be Obvious

Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006Tuesday, October 1, 2019 by Douglas Wilson

“When Christ is the Molder of character we have Christian character; precisely, when Christ is the molder of culture we have Christian culture” (Richard Taylor, A Return to Christian Culture, p. 16).

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Art Striving to be a Religion

Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006Tuesday, October 1, 2019 by Douglas Wilson

“Perhaps one of the main problems of art today has been the result of giving art the wrong function. Formerly art was ‘an art’, just as we still speak of arts and crafts. Art as a higher function of mankind, the work of the inspired lofty artist, comparable to that of the poet and the …

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Not Short Heathen

Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“But whenever we talk about religious ‘duty,’ we must be careful lest we get tangled up in the law and gospel business. The promise precedes the law, Paul argues, and is the foundation for it. All duty must arise from the gratitude for redemption, and this includes the duty of educating our covenant children. But …

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Boats Don’t Make Water Float

Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Douglas Wilson

“Here I must say emphatically: art must never be used to show the validity of Christianity. Rather the validity of art should be shown through Christianity” (H.R. Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, p. 228).

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Content With Our Discontents

Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Our doctrine always comes down to action, and that action reveals our true doctrine. We do not understand the relationship between fear, hunger and love. Our great problem is that we do not want enough from God. Ironically, we content ourselves with our discontents in the wilderness when before us a promised land awaits. Why …

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A Much Needed Intrusion

Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Douglas Wilson

“The nineteenth century made music into a kind of refined, cultural, almost pseudo-religious revelation of humanism, composed by the great heroes and prophets of mankind . . . Into this world burst jazz and blues” (H.R. Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, p. 186).

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Love Hungry for Blessing

Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Therefore, to understand the fear of the Lord rightly, learn to see that fear as love hungering for blessing” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 224).

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Why Modern Art Failed

Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We may appreciate the efforts, and even admire the greatness, of men who have tried to find the universal, the general ‘behind’ appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left …

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The Difference Attempts At Application Make

Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Karl Marx was an intellectual who suffered misfortune because people tried to put his ideas into practice. Had Plao suffered the same misfortune, the world would still be talking about that totalitarian hellhole” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 215).

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